International reggae artiste Bryan Art believes that the current paranoia and mass hysteria caused by the possibility that the Ebola virus may reach Jamaican shores is a direct result of ignorance of the disease.

“About 4 weeks ago, I saw my old math teacher at Kingston Technical College (who coincidentally became my landlord while I studied at Edna Manley ), in a Kingston supermarket where I had just stopped by to pick up bottled water and a mosquito swatter to help in my fight…